Turn the heat down and the flavor up with these 12 no-cook recipes
Even on summer's hottest days, eating healthily is no sweat with these tasty no-cook recipes. You needn't look any further than the season's fresh ingredients to help you prepare wholesome meals while keeping your cool. Here, our favorite soups and salads, mains and sides-with nary a flame in sight.
Choose Seasonal Produce
Take advantage of peak-season fruits and vegetables to add flavor to your no-cook meals. When corn and garden peas are at their sweetest, they don't need a fattening boost from butter.
Pick Up Prepared Foods
Avail yourself of your grocer's prepared ingredients to help keep the heat down in the kitchen. Low-fat deli meats like smoked turkey or a rotisserie chicken make perfect choices for adding quick, cool protein to your meals. Avoid such calorie bombs as stuffed, cheesy chicken breasts or fish swimming in butter and oil.
Take It Outside
If you do have to cook an item, prepare it on the grill, whether it's corn on the cob, a thick, juicy chicken breast, or skewers of pineapple. At least you're not heating up the indoors.
Want more ideas? Epicurious and Nutrition Data's Healthy Dinner Tonight gives you delicious and nutritious recipes-with full nutritional analysis-and healthy-eating tips every weekday.
Soups
Raw Cream Of Spinach Soup
Yellow Tomato Gazpacho with Cilantro Oil and Avocado
Starters and Sides
Roasted Red-Pepper and Hazelnut Dip
Watermelon and Watercress Salad with Ginger
Two-Tone Coleslaw with Celery-Seed Yogurt Dressing
Main Courses
Turkey Paisano Sandwiches with Fig-and-Black Olive Vinaigrette
Mexican Chopped Salad with Honey-Lime Dressing
Citrus Marinated Shrimp Cocktail
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